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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:08:36 PM EST
[#1]
Another X'er singing in.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:10:36 PM EST
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/87899/95F99A82-3020-4777-8D7F-88FB958FC843_jpe-2196607.JPG At first I as like WTF. Then I realized a GenX probably did the graphic and didn't want to be associated with the asshats on the screen. 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:11:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: holy shit that brings back memories of when i grew up in Canada, my dad handed me a Molson or Labatt's when i was 5 years old  |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:12:29 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man; no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives. We've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off." It looks like someone forgot the 1st rule |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:12:44 PM EST
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Let's hope we can handle TGR. We're doing a damn lousy job so far. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:13:31 PM EST
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Late Xer, took a typing class (on a typewriter) my sophomore year of HS. Type 45 or so wpm, no looking, other than initial finger placement for my left hand. I lost feeling in my left index finger last year because I'm stupid and cut a nerve. 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:14:47 PM EST
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We're doing a damn lousy job so far. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Let's hope we can handle TGR. We're doing a damn lousy job so far. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:15:20 PM EST
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You fucks can barely type And it doesn’t matter, lols. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:18:06 PM EST
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Here’s mine! Stitches, butts and beers all at the tender age of 4-5 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/307202/D12AB9DA-38EA-4005-AAE8-410B7D0404E3_jpe-2196668.JPG Eta Olives! Delicious Olives! Awesome. Yesterday I handed a hatchet to a four-year-old and had him splitting kindling. He had a blast, and I know I was just channeling the Gen X in me. His older sister asked if it was a good idea and I solemnly informed her (before handing her her hatchet) that it was more fun if everyone did dangerous things. And it was. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 4:55:04 PM EST
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have all my gen-x shit from the 80's. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/IMG_3644_JPG-2196402.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/IMG_3645_JPG-2196403.JPG Nice! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:04:03 PM EST
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stegmaier for me. Usually drank it after my dad set it down while he was mowing the lawn. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: holy shit that brings back memories of when i grew up in Canada, my dad handed me a Molson or Labatt's when i was 5 years old Abuelo didn't give a damn, same when I'd swipe a cigar or a unfiltered Marlboro Bronco Red. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:06:50 PM EST
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. We are the Anti-Boomers Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: GenX best generation  Yep. We are the Anti-Boomers |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:08:07 PM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: GenX best generation Hell yeah, brother! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:08:41 PM EST
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:14:52 PM EST
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: GenX best generation In. 74. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:16:43 PM EST
[#16]
The Gen X qualification dates has DEFINITELY been stretched. There used to be something called "Gen Y" that got erased. Gen Y-ers were from 1977 onward. They earned that title for answering "Why?" to anything they were told to do. They'd shrug their shoulders if you asked what they wanted to do, where they'd been, etc.
Somehow, they got associated with Gen X, as the millennials that followed were SO shitty, that they made Gen Y look decent. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:22:47 PM EST
[#17]
Quote History“Just look at the flowers snowflake” Gen X best gen. 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:29:47 PM EST
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Jo was hot for Blair. I'd have watched Joe & Blair scissor it |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:30:36 PM EST
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Gen X qualification dates has DEFINITELY been stretched. There used to be something called "Gen Y" that got erased. Gen Y-ers were from 1977 onward. They earned that title for answering "Why?" to anything they were told to do. They'd shrug their shoulders if you asked what they wanted to do, where they'd been, etc. Somehow, they got associated with Gen X, as the millennials that followed were SO shitty, that they made Gen Y look decent. We went from GenX to Gen Y to Gen WTFBBQ?!?! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:34:00 PM EST
[#20]
I'm February of 1980, did I make the cut for Gen X?
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:40:58 PM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm February of 1980, did I make the cut for Gen X? Absolutely. Welcome to the club |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 5:53:37 PM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You fucks can barely type Because we learned typing on electric typewriters... Not lame ass phones that anticipate what you are trying to type. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:06:32 PM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd have watched Joe & Blair scissor it Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Jo was hot for Blair. I'd have watched Joe & Blair scissor it  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:16:42 PM EST
[#24]
Miami is way off base with his gun selection, as might be expected of someone who calls himself an Xeniell ! (Whatever that is!)
Those revolvers and Smith autos were what our dads carried. My dad carried a S&W .357, and when he got home he didn’t put it in a safe, nope it just went on top of the tallest bookshelf. He carried that until the Glock 2nd generation took over, when he went to a G22. Gen X (me) only carried revolvers for fun- I did carry one just to say I did, on occasion. But we were the first to be trained on Glocks from the beginning, and we carried them for decades. So a Glock 22 in .40 cal is really the Gen X gun, along with a Remington 870 and a Colt 6520. The last of the boomers carried the revolvers and Smith autos, hate to say it... Maybe the front edge of Gen X had one for a short time, but more likely they had a first gen Glock 17/19 or a Sig 226/220. Of course being Gen X, we embraced newer technology- red dots, flashlights, lasers, NV, etc. Not stuck in time like the boomers who said we didn’t need an AR... (Literally, when I asked my boomer police chief why we didn’t use AR’s, he said “but we have always used shotguns” as if that was a good answer. A year later and I had us carrying 6520’s.) |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:18:05 PM EST
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: GenX best generation This. But I didn’t even watch those shows when they were on back then.., we were too busy! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:28:34 PM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Miami is way off base with his gun selection, as might be expected of someone who calls himself an Xeniell ! (Whatever that is!) Those revolvers and Smith autos were what our dads carried. My dad carried a S&W .357, and when he got home he didn’t put it in a safe, nope it just went on top of the tallest bookshelf. He carried that until the Glock 2nd generation took over, when he went to a G22. Gen X (me) only carried revolvers for fun- I did carry one just to say I did, on occasion. But we were the first to be trained on Glocks from the beginning, and we carried them for decades. So a Glock 22 in .40 cal is really the Gen X gun, along with a Remington 870 and a Colt 6520. The last of the boomers carried the revolvers and Smith autos, hate to say it... Maybe the front edge of Gen X had one for a short time, but more likely they had a first gen Glock 17/19 or a Sig 226/220. Of course being Gen X, we embraced newer technology- red dots, flashlights, lasers, NV, etc. Not stuck in time like the boomers who said we didn’t need an AR... (Literally, when I asked my boomer police chief why we didn’t use AR’s, he said “but we have always used shotguns” as if that was a good answer. A year later and I had us carrying 6520’s.) Ah, the days when my AR at the range was called the "Poodle Shooter". I took it in stride, as the fellas at the range at the time were mostly M14 guys, and by dark alchemy and fiberglass were able to make their rifles really perform. They were a good crew. I miss those guys. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:38:27 PM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: GenX best generation Yep this |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:45:33 PM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Um, because they're our parents? Lol Thankfully, my parents are Silent Generation. Their younger siblings are all Boomers. 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:52:11 PM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: ... Gen X (me) only carried revolvers for fun- I did carry one just to say I did, on occasion. But we were the first to be trained on Glocks from the beginning, and we carried them for decades. So a Glock 22 in .40 cal is really the Gen X gun, along with a Remington 870 and a Colt 6520. ... I'm in my early 50s, my brother is 4 years younger, and we learned pistolcraft with S&W K- and L-Frames. We devoured the works of Elmer Keith, Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan, Charles Askins, Ken Hackathorn, Walt Rauch, and Jeff Cooper growing up. I don't particularly care for Glocks. Funny thing is, there's a picture of me in one of the mid/late 90s Glock Annuals. I do have a Colt 6520, though. 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:09:54 PM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Miami is way off base with his gun selection, as might be expected of someone who calls himself an Xeniell ! (Whatever that is!) Those revolvers and Smith autos were what our dads carried. My dad carried a S&W .357, and when he got home he didn't put it in a safe, nope it just went on top of the tallest bookshelf. He carried that until the Glock 2nd generation took over, when he went to a G22. Gen X (me) only carried revolvers for fun- I did carry one just to say I did, on occasion. But we were the first to be trained on Glocks from the beginning, and we carried them for decades. So a Glock 22 in .40 cal is really the Gen X gun, along with a Remington 870 and a Colt 6520. The last of the boomers carried the revolvers and Smith autos, hate to say it... Maybe the front edge of Gen X had one for a short time, but more likely they had a first gen Glock 17/19 or a Sig 226/220. Of course being Gen X, we embraced newer technology- red dots, flashlights, lasers, NV, etc. Not stuck in time like the boomers who said we didn't need an AR... (Literally, when I asked my boomer police chief why we didn't use AR's, he said "but we have always used shotguns" as if that was a good answer. A year later and I had us carrying 6520's.) But I'll make you feel better. As a late Gen X'er (Xeniell) I carried both wheel guns and GLOCK. Specifically a Gen 2 G17.  Hell, my Boomer Father was carrying Beretta before the military adopted it and was one of the first to carry GLOCK.  Dad back around 1980-1981  Dad back around the late 80s with Herr Gaston Glock himself. I had GLOCKs and Wheel Guns. Even had the fabled LW Seecamp .32 when they were hand made. While you were dreaming about owning then. I had them, shot them, and carried them long before I was of legal age. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:11:55 PM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ah, the days when my AR at the range was called the "Poodle Shooter". I took it in stride, as the fellas at the range at the time were mostly M14 guys, and by dark alchemy and fiberglass were able to make their rifles really perform. They were a good crew. I miss those guys. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Miami is way off base with his gun selection, as might be expected of someone who calls himself an Xeniell ! (Whatever that is!) Those revolvers and Smith autos were what our dads carried. My dad carried a S&W .357, and when he got home he didn't put it in a safe, nope it just went on top of the tallest bookshelf. He carried that until the Glock 2nd generation took over, when he went to a G22. Gen X (me) only carried revolvers for fun- I did carry one just to say I did, on occasion. But we were the first to be trained on Glocks from the beginning, and we carried them for decades. So a Glock 22 in .40 cal is really the Gen X gun, along with a Remington 870 and a Colt 6520. The last of the boomers carried the revolvers and Smith autos, hate to say it... Maybe the front edge of Gen X had one for a short time, but more likely they had a first gen Glock 17/19 or a Sig 226/220. Of course being Gen X, we embraced newer technology- red dots, flashlights, lasers, NV, etc. Not stuck in time like the boomers who said we didn't need an AR... (Literally, when I asked my boomer police chief why we didn't use AR's, he said "but we have always used shotguns" as if that was a good answer. A year later and I had us carrying 6520's.) Ah, the days when my AR at the range was called the "Poodle Shooter". I took it in stride, as the fellas at the range at the time were mostly M14 guys, and by dark alchemy and fiberglass were able to make their rifles really perform. They were a good crew. I miss those guys.  It was then poodle shooter. I remember everyone saying it was a M14 or nothing. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:14:54 PM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm in my early 50s, my brother is 4 years younger, and we learned pistolcraft with S&W K- and L-Frames. We devoured the works of Elmer Keith, Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan, Charles Askins, Ken Hackathorn, Walt Rauch, and Jeff Cooper growing up. I don't particularly care for Glocks. Funny thing is, there's a picture of me in one of the mid/late 90s Glock Annuals. I do have a Colt 6520, though. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: ... Gen X (me) only carried revolvers for fun- I did carry one just to say I did, on occasion. But we were the first to be trained on Glocks from the beginning, and we carried them for decades. So a Glock 22 in .40 cal is really the Gen X gun, along with a Remington 870 and a Colt 6520. ... I'm in my early 50s, my brother is 4 years younger, and we learned pistolcraft with S&W K- and L-Frames. We devoured the works of Elmer Keith, Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan, Charles Askins, Ken Hackathorn, Walt Rauch, and Jeff Cooper growing up. I don't particularly care for Glocks. Funny thing is, there's a picture of me in one of the mid/late 90s Glock Annuals. I do have a Colt 6520, though. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:18:21 PM EST
[#33]
Gen-x is the master race. All others since are failures.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:18:59 PM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: MILLENNIAL MASTER RACE  Attached File Attached File Attached FileBorn 1970 and proud of it! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:21:54 PM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You want Gen X to unite? How is that going to work? We're not really joiners and we hate everyone. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:23:54 PM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No, fuck them too. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Being Gen X is great....we can hate boomers and millennials No we hate everyone else except maybe the Greatest Generation I’m good with that. Fuck them all |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:32:32 PM EST
[#37]
In.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:36:20 PM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Gen X qualification dates has DEFINITELY been stretched. There used to be something called "Gen Y" that got erased. Gen Y-ers were from 1977 onward. They earned that title for answering "Why?" to anything they were told to do. They'd shrug their shoulders if you asked what they wanted to do, where they'd been, etc. Somehow, they got associated with Gen X, as the millennials that followed were SO shitty, that they made Gen Y look decent. This is exactly right. My brother, born 81 is a gen Y, and that's EXACTLY what he's like. Now I just call him a millennial. Those whiney bitches! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:41:25 PM EST
[#39]
We grew up in best America.
 
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:48:01 PM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We grew up in best America. The best America most of us will ever know.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:52:01 PM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: dmn right Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: GenX best generation dmn right Best times ever |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:54:54 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: "God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man; no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives. We've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off." Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: GenX best generation "God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man; no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives. We've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off." I became a millionaire. ?? TV was right. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:55:38 PM EST
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Posted: 12/8/2021 7:57:28 PM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have all my gen-x shit from the 80's. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/IMG_3644_JPG-2196402.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/IMG_3645_JPG-2196403.JPG That’s sweet! |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 8:20:33 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: GenX best generation walterwhiteyouregoddamnright.jpeg |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 10:44:23 PM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Gen X qualification dates has DEFINITELY been stretched. There used to be something called "Gen Y" that got erased. Gen Y-ers were from 1977 onward. They earned that title for answering "Why?" to anything they were told to do. They'd shrug their shoulders if you asked what they wanted to do, where they'd been, etc. Somehow, they got associated with Gen X, as the millennials that followed were SO shitty, that they made Gen Y look decent. I learned something new there. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 11:35:47 PM EST
[#47]
Quote HistoryWhy am I hearing the theme from Miami Vice in my head?
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Posted: 12/8/2021 11:42:57 PM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh I remember.  Still got some boot disks in my closet somewhere, too.ETA: sometimes I toy with the idea of building a mid-1990s gaming PC, but then I remember having to deal with all that just to get certain games to run. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: My modification. I would hope GenXers, of all people, know how VCRs work! That is prime 1980s tech, after all. (apologies to GenXers who know how to build a PC; I'm sure there are plenty) Lol you kids probably don't even know what IRQs are, let alone know how to set them with jumpers. Assembling a computer today is like assembling an AR. It's not really a "build" when everything just snaps together like legos. Oh I remember. Still got some boot disks in my closet somewhere, too.ETA: sometimes I toy with the idea of building a mid-1990s gaming PC, but then I remember having to deal with all that just to get certain games to run.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 11:46:17 PM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You fucks can barely type |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 11:49:42 PM EST
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